Today's Monday, right? So that means yesterday was Sunday...I forgot to post, didn't I? Yep. Ok, well, we weren't very exciting yesterday...we went to my mom and dad's, I went to work for a couple of hours and then my boss came to see Aubrey. She hadn't seen her since a couple of days after she was born and was still in a plastic box and the size of a hamster. I showed her pictures incessantly of course, but she wanted to see her in the flesh. Who wouldn't? ;)
Today we were only supposed to have a speech therapy appointment this afternoon, but Aubrey changed that. Starting yesterday afternoon and then through the night, she has had pink or red spots in her diaper just about every time we've changed it. There aren't any spots on her bottom that have blood coming from them, so it has to be from her urine. So off to the pediatrician we go. She seems fine otherwise--no fever, still eating, etc. *sigh*
-Keli
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| rocking in her chair, getting ready for bed |
Pediatrician stated that the spots in the diaper was called urate crystals. They are essentially a chemical reaction between the diaper and the urine that happens sometimes even in healthy babies. Everything is ok in that area. Her weight did to down to 9 lbs 15 ounces. Argh that's discouraging. Need to ramp up her feedings a little. But she still is weeks ahead on her weight according to an early NICU doctor so it's ok I think.
Adam
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| the whole "changing her diaper will wake her up" thing did not go as planned. |
5p.m.
The speech therapist helped a lot today. When Aubrey finally woke up and we tried to feed her at about 3:40 (she ate at 12:30 before that), she got upset and then went right to sleep without taking anything. The therapist said that's probably her defense mechanism--she's not ready to eat, so the best way she knows to get out of it is to go to sleep. Fifteen minutes later she woke up and started to cry, so I popped the bottle in her mouth and she went to town on it. We figured that she still just wants to do things her way; she knows when she's good and ready, and if we try to feed her even 15 minutes before that appointed time, well, she'll have none of it. The therapist also said that we might need to space her feedings out a little more--if she's not ready at 3 hours, give her 3.5 or 4 and she should be ready. It's better for her to take an entire feeding without getting mad than to only take part of one and get ticked off about it. If she gets ticked off too many times she could develop an aversion to the bottle altogether. We don't want that. She said she's not worried about a loss of 2 ounces right now; both she and the pediatrician want to still give Aubrey some time to keep at the bottle feedings and see what her weight is at the end of the week.
-Keli
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